DECISION AUTOPSY — [decision] — [your name] The decision, in one sentence, with a link to where it was announced: The timeline (every dated document, in order, with a one-line note): The seam, or why there isn't one — one of three conclusions: (a) a seam: a specific point where the outcome looks settled before the forum that announced it, with an alternative explanation you considered and could rule out, or (b) a genuinely open process: a reasoned case, from the timeline, that no such point exists, or (c) indeterminate: the specific evidence that's missing, the alternative explanation you could not rule out without it, and what would change your judgement if it turned up What you cannot show (the gap between evidence and suspicion):